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Chris Lougee Elected to EWA Board of Directors

Icom America Vice President is the first Icom representative to sit on the baord.

Bellevue, WA – Icom America is pleased to recognize Vice President Chris Lougee as a newly-elected member of the Enterprise Wireless Association (commonly known as EWA) board of directors.

“Spectrum space is saturated. The development of and implementation of digital technologies to help open up spectrum that was previously unavailable is of primary importance”, says Chris Lougee. “It is an honor to sit on the board, I’m looking forward to the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead.”

EWA is an FCC-certified frequency advisory committee serving enterprise, technology providers and communications service organizations with licensing, spectrum management and consulting services. .Membership in the association is open to all users of wireless communications systems, manufacturers, system operators and communication service providers. (Information taken from EWA press release 10/31/07).

Chris, a 17 year employee of Icom America. He’s been head of Icom America’s Land Mobile division for the past 9 years, guiding the division to introduce dozens of new products and remarkable increases in total sales.

Icom America’s parent company, Icom Inc., was founded in Osaka, Japan. Icom is a publicly held Japanese corporation; its stock is traded on the Osaka and Tokyo Stock Exchange. Icom began as an engineering and manufacturing company, making advanced, compact solid-state radio equipment for use by amateur radio enthusiasts. Icom has since grown to become an industry leader with a product line that includes state-of-the-art communications equipment for land mobile and marine use as well as avionics. Icom America's headquarters are in Bellevue, Washington. www.icomamerica.com

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